Mathematics and Statistics

Mathematics and Statistics

Galton’s septcunx - LMSE Christchurch CentreGalton’s septcunx

This paper discusses the development of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to illustrate sampling from a trinomial distribution by the natural extension of Galton’s quincunx to three dimensions.

Source code for the GUI

Extending Galton’s Binomial Quincunx to the Trinomial Septcunx, Jennifer Harlow, Bry Ashman and Raazesh Sainudiin, Technology Innovations in Statistics Education, 3(2), 2009 (Preprint PDF 991 KB)

Galton's quinseptcunxA thousand samples with n = 10

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